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UP mosques double up as primary schools

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Amid the mushrooming convent schools, mosques still continue to be popular centres of learning at least up to the primary class level in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district. The trend is more common in cities and towns where Islamic primary schools are rare.

There are more than 100 mosques in Azamgarh city and around 40 percent offer primary education. A majority of students in mosques come from the Muslim community but there are no restrictions on non-Muslim students taking admission.

Indian jailed for groping pregnant woman not to be deported

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A 36-year-old man of Indian origin who was jailed for 12 months for groping a pregnant patient at a British hospital where he worked will not be deported because of his “right to family life”.

Milind Sanade pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the 21-year-old pregnant woman at a hospital in Harlow, Essex, in February 2010.

He reportedly groped the woman while examining her for signs of breast cancer, the Daily Mail said.

To hide his crime, Sanade made entries in the victim’s medical file so that if she complained she would be viewed as emotionally unstable.

“Live Peacefully and get good education” – Osama to his children

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Slain Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden reportedly told his children to live peacefully in the West where they would get a good education, his brother-in-law has revealed.

Zakaria Al-Sadah, whose sister was Osama’s fifth wife, said the Al-Qaida chief did not want his children and grandchildren to follow the same path of terrorism like him, the Daily Mail reported.

“He told his own children and grandchildren, go to Europe and America and get a good education,” al-Sadah, a 24-year-old journalism student, was quoted as saying.

Plane with William, Kate in runway scare

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Prince William and his wife Kate had the scare of their lives after a plane carrying them narrowly avoided colliding with another aircraft which had not cleared a runway, a media report said Sunday.

Passengers on the 162-seat Airbus A320-200, flying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge into London from Copenhagen, were “very frightened” after the pilot had to climb up quickly to avoid crashing into another plane, the Daily Mail reported.

Though no was was hurt, both William and Kate were “deeply unsettled” by the incident.

My son-in-law is very good looking: Hema Malini

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Dharmendra and Hema Malini’s elder daughter Esha Deol Sunday got engaged to businessman Bharat Takhtani, whom the Dream Girl describes as a “good looking” guy.

“The wedding dates have not been decided yet. However, post ‘Tell Me O Kkhuda’, we had decided that Esha would get settled. We will make an official announcement once we decide the marriage dates,” she told reporters and added: “My son-in-law is very good looking.”

The ceremony, which took place at Hema’s bungalow in Juhu, was a private affair and was attended by close family members and some friends.

Junior doctors’ strike continues in Andhra

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Emergency services in Andhra Pradesh’s government-run hospitals remained crippled Sunday as junior doctors demanding hike in stipend continued their strike, causing severe inconvenience to patients. Five more patients died Sunday, but the authorities termed it as “routine” deaths.

With the talks between the government and striking medicos on Saturday night failing to achieve a breakthrough, the patients are having a harrowing time at 10 major hospitals.

The government maintains the five deaths Sunday were “routine” and had nothing to do with the strike.

Noble Laureate from Yemen, Tawakul Karman.

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AMAZING response by Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2011 Tawakkul Karman* when asked about her Hijab By Journalists and how it is not proportionate with her level of intellect and education, she replied. “Man in The early times was almost naked, and as his intellect evolved he started wearing clothes. What I am today and what I’m wearing represents the highest level of thought and civilization that man has achieved, and is not regressive. It’s the removal of clothes again that is regressive back to ancient TIMES”****

Fresh snowfall likely in Kashmir

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Rain and snow has been forecast again across the Kashmir Valley Sunday and over the next two days, an official said.

The fresh snow and rain is due to the western disturbance, he said.

“We are expecting snowfall in the Valley from Sunday up to Feb 14. The snowfall could be heavy in the Pir Panchal Mountain range. Both road and air traffic is likely to get disrupted because of the western disturbance that is active over the Valley at present,” Sonam Lotus, director of the local meteorological office, said.

Chinese woman creates website to promote premarital virginity

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Chinese woman creates website to promote premarital virginity
A Chinese woman writer has run into a controversy after she set up a website that asks people to stay virgins before their wedding.

Freelance writer Tu Shiyou from Wuhan said she was driven to set up the website by the recent trend of youngsters supporting premarital sex, the China Daily reported.

The 38-year-old writer has never been in a relationship.

After a friend expressed disbelief about her virginity, she acquired proof from a hospital and released it on her micro blog.

How to revive romance in marriage? Take tips from experts!

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Did you shelve love after marriage? Experts suggest that this Valentine’s Day, with some planning, time management and surprises, couples can rekindle romance and brush away boredom from married life.

TV actor Pawan Shankar, married to Yukti for more than eight years, feels that priorities change after having kids, but it’s the responsibility of the couples to keep the romance alive.

Shankar told IANS: “It often happens that after having kids a gap comes in between husband and wife because priorities change. To revive that love, efforts have to be made from both the sides.”

Pakistani boy jailed for stealing kite

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Tearful pleas of a 14-year-old Pakistani boy for forgiveness fell on deaf ears after a court handed him a prison sentence for stealing a kite.

“Please give me pardon, I will never touch a kite, my annual paper is on tomorrow,” Arsalan pleaded.

The class eight student was handcuffed and produced before a judicial magistrate in Gujranwala city of Punjab province, Geo TV reported Sunday.

Arsalan said he was caught by police while he was going to the roof of his house after stealing the kite.

Afghan troops kill two Pakistanis

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Two Pakistani nationals were killed by Afghan security forces when they tried to lay a landmine near the border, media reports said Saturday.

The Pakistanis tried to plant a landmine in Maroof district in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province Friday night before being shot dead by the security forces, the Afghan media reported quoting officials of that country.

However, the relatives of the victims claim that Afghan soldiers intruded into Pakistan’s Zhob district in two vehicles and seized the men before killing them later.

Anand Sharma heads for Pakistan with 150-FICCI team

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The largest Indian business delegation to Pakistan, consisting of some 150 members and led by Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, will take part in a series of events, including an “India Show” in Lahore, over four days starting Monday.

Co-hosted by the two leading Indian business chambers, the event will mark the first visit of an Indian trade minister to Pakistan in 30 years in an exercise aimed at ramping bilateral trade to $10 billion in three years.

Films, TV shows influencing child crimes?

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The recent cases of a 12-year-old who died aping a TV serial suicide and a 15-year-old who stabbed his teacher to death after being reportedly influenced by watching revenge drama “Agneepath” have put the spotlight on the influence showbiz exerts on young, impressionable minds. But films and TV shows are not alone to blame, say experts.

Media literacy for kids is one way out, suggests child psychiatrist Samir Parikh.

Mistress reveals “sex life” with eX-US President

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A former White House intern has revealed about her 18-month ‘tender, funny, loving’ affair with John F Kennedy in a new book, claiming that the ex President ‘took her virginity’ on his wife Jacqueline Kennedy’s bed.

When the United States stood on the threshold of nuclear Armageddon during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy sent his wife and children away to stay at the family’s summer farm in Virginia, the new book has claimed.

White Men love Asian Women

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White men prefer the facial features of Asian women while white women go for the faces of black men, scientists have discovered.

During the study, the researchers found that white people tend to choose other races when asked to rate which faces they find most attractive.

Men and women aged between 18 and 30 were shown 600 faces of the opposite sex and asked to grade them for attractiveness.

The women tended to go for black male faces, followed by white and then Asian.

Men plumped for Asian women, followed by white, then black.

Imran Khan: “I am working towards my MISSION”

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Imran Khan was his confident and passionate self the day after a grenade attack at a rally he’d just finished addressing, in the Frontier region, claimed the life of one policeman and sent many (security personnel and civilians) to hospital.

Pakistan’s solitary World Cup-winning captain has been after the Establishment for years and, as a result, has made life miserable for most of the entrenched politicians.

Large turnout in UP second phase polls

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Bright and sunny weather saw a large turnout at polling booths in Uttar Pradesh Saturday where balloting is being held in 59 constituencies spread across nine districts in the second phase of the staggered assembly elections.

More than 40 percent turnout was reported by 3 p.m.

The election commission is expecting a significant jump in the voting percentage over what was witnessed during the corresponding phase at the last assembly election in 2007.

PM holds meet to discuss 2G verdict fallout

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday met union ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid to discuss the fallout of the apex court verdict cancelling 122 2G licences granted by former communications minister A. Raja in 2007 and 2008.

The meeting, held at the prime minister’s official residence at 7, Race Course Road, was still underway, sources said.

The meeting was expected to discuss new guidelines for the allocation of 2G licences in the wake of the Supreme Court observing that first-come-first-serve policy was flawed and instead favouring auctioning.

CIA gets hacked

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Hacker group Anonymous Friday night took down the website of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), media reports said Saturday.

Citing online publication PC Magazine, RIA Novosti said the website was still offline.

“CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous,” the hacker group wrote on Twitter.

Anonymous did not make public any details about the hacking, but the group’s hackers normally use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to knock their targets offline.

‘Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu’ a chilled-out romcom

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Film: “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu”;
Starring: Kareena Kapoor, Imran Khan;
Directed by: Shakun Batra;
Rating: *** 1/2

She is fun, feisty and ….well, full-on. He needs to loosen up. Urgently!! Son of two stuffed-up high-society mannequins Rahul Kapoor is a repressed child going into depressive manhood. Since this is a rom-com, and one sparkling with vigour with warmth and what-have-youth, you know Rahul will meet Ms Fun-Feisty-Full-On before Reel 1 is done.

Three British Muslims jailed for anti-gay campaign

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Three Muslim extremists who distributed leaflets calling for homosexuals to be hanged, stoned and burned to death were jailed by a British court Friday.

The trio were found guilty at Derby Crown Court last month.

The group had handed out the material in the street as well as posted it through letterboxes in a hate-filled campaign calling for the execution of gay people who they claimed were at the root of society’s problems, the Daily Mail reported Friday.

Delhi Durbar and Lucknow nawabi to be shared

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Lucknow High Muslim turout is giving sleepless nights to BJP and BSP and Congress and SP are singing praises for Rahul Baba and Akilesh Yadav.Both the parties are banking that Muslims turout and youth turnout in large numbers will benefit them.
The Royal wedding between Congress-Sp will be finalised very soon .The Congress is waiting to crown Rahul Baba in Delhi Durbar and Mulayam wants to crown his son Akilesh in Lucknow as a chota nawab of Lucknow.

Rahul Baba will have UP remote control

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UNION minister and senior Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters on Thursday that the next CM of Uttar Pradesh ( UP) will be remote- controlled by Rahul Gandhi. “ Whoever becomes the CM ( if Congress comes to power), the remote will be in Rahul ji ’s hands,” the coal minister said in New Delhi, a day after an impressive 64 per cent turnout in the first phase of the state assembly elections for 55 seats in 10 districts.